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title: change loglevel
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Changes the logging level on specified members.

**Availability:** Online. You must be connected in `gfsh` to a JMX Manager member to use this command.

**Syntax:**

``` pre
change loglevel --loglevel=value [--members=value(nullvalue)*] [--groups=value(nullvalue)*]
```

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<table>
<caption><span class="tablecap">Table 1. Change Loglevel Parameters</span></caption>
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<tr class="header">
<th>Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default Value</th>
</tr>
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<tr class="odd">
<td><span class="keyword parmname">\-\-members</span></td>
<td>Name or ID of one or more Geode distributed system member(s) whose logging level you want to change.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td><span class="keyword parmname">\-\-groups</span></td>
<td>One or more group names. The logging level changes for all members of these groups.</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td><span class="keyword parmname">\-\-loglevel</span></td>
<td><em>Required.</em> Log level to change. Valid options are:
<ul>
<li><code class="ph codeph">all</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">finest</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">finer</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">fine</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">config</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">info</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">warning</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">error</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">severe</code></li>
<li><code class="ph codeph">none</code></li>
</ul></td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<span class="tablecap">Table 1. Change Loglevel Parameters</span>

**Example Commands:**

``` pre
gfsh>change loglevel --loglevel=severe --members=server1
```

**Sample Output:**

``` pre
gfsh>change loglevel --loglevel=severe --members=server1

Summary

                Member            | Changed log-level
--------------------------------- | -----------------
192.0.2.0(server1:3060)<v1>:24653 | true
```
